Call per abstracts: New vulnerabilities of market exclusion and inclusion

Call for abstracts: New vulnerabilities of market exclusion and inclusion
 
Organizers:

Léna Pellandindi-Simányi, Università della Svizzera italiana
Philip Balsiger, University of Neuchâtel
 
Panel of the Research Network Economic Sociology at the Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association 2024, September 9-11, Basel

Economic sociologists have long been interested in studying the vulnerabilities created by markets. On the one hand, market inclusion has been shown to produce manifold vulnerabilities. Markets have been said to erode communities and create environmental risks and hazards. Neoliberalism has been criticized for extending the market logic to all realms of life and individualizing responsibility. The recent rise of digital platforms has been associated with new forms of data tracking and algorithmic control through which people are categorized, generally without their knowledge, which leads to the exacerbation of existing vulnerabilities and the creation of new ones. Furthermore, the structure of the platform economy where platforms act as gatekeepers creates forms of dependency that make market participants highly vulnerable to platform policies.
 
On the other hand, market exclusion produces vulnerabilities, too. Being excluded from the use of certain goods and services is one of the historical forms of discrimination against ethnic minorities, women and the poor. Recently, unequal market access to financial products, produced by redlining, credit scoring, and other “classification situations” have garnered attention as key vehicles for producing inequalities. Having access to digital platforms is increasingly a requirement for getting a job, having a business, and participating in social life generally – highlighting the vulnerabilities stemming from the lack of inclusion in specific markets.
 
The goal of this panel is to look at different instances where markets create vulnerabilities around the tension of inclusion and exclusion from markets, in both digital markets and other contexts, such as financial markets, housing, healthcare, etc. We specifically want to look at a) how and when markets produce forms of vulnerabilities, b) processes of resistance to such vulnerabilities, and c) how they are addressed by different forms of regulation and social movements.
 
 
Please submit your abstract of maximum 2000 characters by 5 January 2024 to economy@sgs-sss.ch
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